R. Budd Dwyer

Robert Budd Dwyer (21 November 1939-22 January 1987) was Treasurer of Pennsylvania from 20 January 1981 to 22 January 1987, succeeding Robert E. Casey and preceding G. David Greene, Jr.. He is most famous for his filmed suicide with a handgun during a press conference, killing himself before he could go to jail for bribery.

Biography
Robert Budd Dwyer was born on 21 November 1939 in Saint Charles, Missouri, United States, and he attended Allegheny College in Pennsylvania, settling there and joining the US Republican Party. Dwyer was elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from the 6h district in 1964, and in 1970 he entered the State Senate. In 1981, he was elected as Treasurer, succeeding Robert E. Casey, and he was known to be corrupt. He received kickbacks worth $300,000 in exchange for giving a contract of $4,600,000 to Computer Technology Associates, and he was later found guilty of bribery on 16 December 1986. On 23 January 1987, he was to have a sentencing hearing, and he decided to hold a press conference a day earlier, with his aides beliving that he was going to resign. However, he instead pulled a gun from an envelope, and he told the crowd not to interfere, as the gun could hurt someone. He quickly pulled the trigger in the gun as it was aimed at the roof of his mouth, and he fell to the ground after a quick snap. People cursed and screamed in fear, and a camera caught a cascade of blood pouring from his nose while also observing an exit would on the upper left side of his head. The footage of his death was visible on live television, and it remained a popular video in the following decades.